Covenant Discipline and Restoration – Part 1

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David Platt

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The idea of confronting people in their sin seems like the last thing a church would want to do, particularly if its goal is to attract more people. However, when Jesus gave instructions regarding the church, the topic we know of as church discipline as a top priority. In this message from Matthew 18:15–20, David Platt exhorts the church to carry out its God-given responsibility to deal with sin and to seek to restore one another. We can trust Jesus to build his church, for he desires our hol...

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0:00.0	You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from
0:05.5	pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.
0:08.4	So let's be honest.
0:09.5	Let's just put it out on the table.
0:11.4	Church discipline is pretty negative topic in many of our minds.
0:17.2	As soon as we mention church discipline, there's all kinds of ideas, images, pictures of the holy police that come to our minds. As soon as we mentioned, church discipline, there's all kinds of ideas, images,
0:21.6	pictures of the holy police that come to our mind. Some of our guys have been working on
0:27.1	trying to depict some of those images that might come in our minds. So I want you to watch
0:31.9	this video with you. Maybe this is how you picture church discipline. Watch this with me. Ma'am, thank you for meeting with us here today. We are attempting to address the matter of church discipline.
0:51.3	Who are you? That is not important. And we are starting with you in the case of you cutting off another person in traffic.
0:59.0	I believe we have photographic evidence.
1:01.0	Wait a minute.
1:02.0	I don't remember cutting anyone off in traffic.
1:05.0	And to be honest, this picture is kind of blurry.
1:08.0	You're going to need to calm down.
1:10.0	It is a little blurry. If you'll take a good, hard look at this photograph, you'll realize that this is a photograph of you.
1:15.0	All we're asking you to do is to confess what you did so this situation doesn't escalate.
1:18.9	What exactly do you want me to confess? We want you to confess. All right, that's enough. I want you to wait outside.
1:25.3	Wait outside and calm down. Ma'am, I apologize for my partner. I want you to wait outside. Wait outside. Ah! And calm down.
1:28.3	Man, I apologize for my partner.
1:30.3	I can't control him.
1:31.3	I'm gonna need you to sign this full confession.
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